Bristol! ☀️ Upcoming shows you won’t want to miss over the coming months

Edinburgh’s Hamish Hawk returned in April with the welcome news that a new album A Firmer Hand is to land August 16th on So Recordings. Rich of voice and even richer of imagination, Hawk creates musical pen-portraits, chamber pop songs that have swallowed both a dictionary and a compendium of modern urban (and island) fairy tales. And Hawk does all this with considerable wit, inspired by artists like Leonard Cohen, Jarvis Cocker, Randy Newman and Stephin Merritt of Magnetic Fields. Hamish Hawk will be playing a number of dates across the year in support of the new record including a recently announced support for Elbow in the summer. He will also be playing an extensive set of instore and outstore performances in the run-up to release.

ONLY THE POETS
28-Aug-24 Fleece

Only The Poets, comprising of Tommy Longhurst, bassist Andy “Roo” Burge, guitarist Clem Cherry and drummer Marcus Yates, have established themselves in just a few short years as one of the UK’s biggest emerging live acts. Unsigned until the start of 2023, the band’s DIY ethos saw them build things from the ground up, from playing student house parties, pub circuits and small venues to selling out 1,600-capacity venues in the UK and across Europe last year. 2024 has already seen the band kick off a massive run of 22 European shows and in June the band will play a string of venues before joining Yungblud on his European shows this Summer alongside a support slot for Tom Grennan in August.

ANOTHER SKY
27-Sep-24 Strange Brew

With the release of their sophomore album Beach Day this past March and a run of UK shows across the country this Autumn, 2024 has proved to be a powerful year for Another Sky. The Times claimed Beach Day to be “an artistic triumph rising from the ashes of personal disaster”, with DIY Magazine giving the album a 4.5 star review professing it as “a fearless beauty”. The band built a personal crypt-based studio from scratch to create this album, with help from guitarist Jack Gilbert’s builder Dad, where Gilbert produced much of the album himself – costing less and giving the band infinitely more freedom to take back control of their own narrative. Another Sky are steadfast and galvanised to make you understand everything that got them here. How they survived. All you have to do is listen.

ORLANDO WEEKS
28-Sep-24 Thekla

Having launched his acclaimed new album LOJA with three inspiring sold-out performance/art exhibition events at the Copeland Gallery, Orlando Weeks has now announced details of a full UK tour which starts in September. The tour will see Orlando supported by a live band which features several of the key musicians on the album. LOJA is a record informed by Orlando and his family’s move from London to Lisbon. It was a change that stirred the waters of inspiration, instigating reflection on things which have passed, optimism for the future, and the contentment that comes with finding your place. The album’s lead single ‘Dig’ featured Rhian Teasdale of Wet Leg and landed on the 6 Music playlist. Meanwhile, strong reviews were complemented with news coverage spanning Clash, DIY, Dork, Far Out, NME, So Young, The Line of Best Fit, whynow and more.

THE LAST DINNER PARTY
4-Oct-24 O2 Academy

At the turn of 2024, The Last Dinner Party had won themselves their first BRIT with the Rising Star award, and voted BBC Radio 1’s Sound of 2024. They are now spending much of it joining dots from city to city on a road map across the globe, since the release of their critically acclaimed debut album Prelude To Ecstasy. It has certainly been a whirlwind twelve months for the London based band, and after a summer full of exciting festival appearances, the band will be playing a stint across the country in the fall. Prelude To Ecstasy is both the closing of that introductory chapter and the opening of the next. The Last Dinner Party? Believe the hype.

KAETO
4-Oct-24 O2 Academy (supporting The Last Dinner Party)

The emerging London-based artist is fast carving a space for herself with her unique genre-spanning sound that blends elements of trip-hop, dance and electronic music with punk, alt-pop and more. KAETO first attracted attention with her startling debut ‘Good Morning’. After signing with Polydor last summer, she released ‘No Body’, which i-D declared “the most commanding artist statement we’ve heard all year”. Following it up with several other hypnotic singles, she continues to carve her own niche. KAETO has been captivating audiences with her mesmerising live performances, opening as special guest for Haim, Eliza and Bleachers, and will now be supporting The Last Dinner Party on their UK tour in October.

THE LIBERTINES
8-Oct-24 O2 Academy

The last gang in town The Libertines, who released their hotly anticipated new album All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade on April 5th, have announced a UK & Irish tour commencing in Dublin on 23rd September and taking in two shows at The Roundhouse in London and culminating at Bournemouth O2 Academy on the 17th November. The Libertines’ once-seen-never-forgotten live shows are here to save humanity from holograms, virtual reality and AI auto-tunIing, so switch off your pocket-held marketing machine and come and experience raw analogue euphoria at the hands of these delirious musical chaos-mongers. The Libertines are Peter Doherty – vocals/guitar, Carl Barât – vocals/guitar, John Hassall – bass guitar and Gary Powell– drums. The band have released three prior albums: Up The Bracket (2002); The Libertines (2004); and Anthems For Doomed Youth (2015).

Formed in Liverpool, The Mysterines – frontwoman Lia Metcalfe, drummer Paul Crilly, bassist George Favager and guitarist Callum Thompson – have undergone a radical transformation over the past few years. Fresh with new purpose and reinvigorated from songwriting sessions while secluded away in the countryside (in between playing to 60,000-strong crowds while on tour with the Arctic Monkeys), the band have now just released the best music of their career with their album Afraid of Tomorrows. The band will play a string of exciting shows this summer, including at Crystal Palace Park as special guests to Bloc Party for their huge 20th anniversary show on 7th July, and numerous festivals all over the UK and Europe including Live at Leeds in the Park, 2000 Trees, Truck Festival, Tramlines and Best Kept Secret.

The Black Country duo BIG SPECIAL are set for a run of shows following the release of their highly-anticipated debut album POSTINDUSTRIAL HOMETOWN BLUES released this past May via SO Recordings. For BIG SPECIAL – Joe Hicklin (vocals) and Callum Moloney (drums) – their sound is one that comes from vital, frustrated young working-class voices that don’t always get heard on the scale they should do. It’s a frustration that comes to the fore through a voice that is at times coarse and raw, but sensitive, desperate and soulful at others. Their new music has arrived in the wake of a sold-out winter UK headline tour, multiple playlisted singles on BBC 6 Music, and their presence as a hotly-tipped prospect for 2024 in a number of Ones To Watch lists.

Remi Wolf’s The Big Ideas Tour, which kicks off this autumn, is set to bring her upcoming highly anticipated album Big Ideas to life. Big Ideas will be released on the 12th July on EMI Records and propels Remi to new heights as her honed sense of self and musicianship is on full display, presenting her big ideas as a magnum opus of guitar-smashing, hair-raising, soul-bearing, lung-filling, life-altering bangers. Following the release of her 2021 critically acclaimed debut album Juno, Remi’s ascent into stardom has been undeniable. Remi has just finished a run thrilling audiences in sold-out arenas across the UK and Europe on Olivia Rodrigo’s GUTS World Tour, and has performed all over the world whether it be at festivals from Coachella to Lollapalooza, selling out tours across countries, or opening for artists like Lorde, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Paramore.

Edinburgh’s Hamish Hawk returned in April with the welcome news that a new album A Firmer Hand is to land August 16th on So Recordings. Rich of voice and even richer of imagination, Hawk creates musical pen-portraits, chamber pop songs that have swallowed both a dictionary and a compendium of modern urban (and island) fairy tales. And Hawk does all this with considerable wit, inspired by artists like Leonard Cohen, Jarvis Cocker, Randy Newman and Stephin Merritt of Magnetic Fields. Hamish Hawk will be playing a number of dates across the year in support of the new record including a recently announced support for Elbow in the summer. He will also be playing an extensive set of instore and outstore performances in the run-up to release.